2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel



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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano ebook
Publisher: Picador
Format: epub
Page: 912
ISBN: 0312429215, 9780312429218


Poetry, on the other hand, was completely homosexual.” So begins Roberto Bolaño's final posthumous published novel, Woes of the True Policeman. ISBN: 0312429215,9780312429218 | 912 pages | 23 Mb. 2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano Publisher: Picador. Other Details: Trade Paperback. I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. Chilean author Roberto Bolaño left behind a surfeit of unfinished manuscripts after his death, but nothing was more intriguing than a reported sixth part of 2666, his bestselling magnum opus. That's not something very many people are willing to do. English Translation by Natasha Wimmer, 2008. At 900 pages, it groans with ambition, knitting together five different novellas in a sprawling story spanning decades, continents and styles. Namely, Bolaño's wish was for 2666 to be published in separate volumes, one per year ( I believe). I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. The reason I bought 2666 wasn't because I knew I was getting stomach flu, but because of my occasional worry that I'm too old to experience a new novel as a masterpiece. Bolaño's final, posthumously published novel, 2666, is dominated by the void. As I was reading the passage in Bolaño's novel 2666 on page 40 through 41 I was reminded of the article from the New York Times we read last week entitled, “Analyzing Literature and Words by Numbers”. Obviously there's a part of me that applauds the willingness of all three critics, at a time when 2666 was the Hot Hot Book in the US, to swim against the current. Nowhere else is his writing more decadently sampled than with his major novels–”The Savage Detectives” and his magnum opus, “2666,” both translated from the original Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome.